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Chicago examiner - r ' wi'ii / â– ill m the weather . mj ju Chicago and vicinity fair andjf&u i -^ cooler friday saturday fair and t â– 1 wi cool moderate and probably brisk ; i vv northwesterly winds din-inishing v vol viii no 225 a m Chicago september 9 1910 14 pages friday friday registered in c s patent office m success p?p in > n jkjks largely upon your ability to save and f\\j m f ' dy not waste anything a barter and ex c 4 \ *Â»? change ad will exchange anything you v j v j cannot use for something you want ! jf m read thi slant jui * price one cent gf 30 cents per mouth u.s has right to fortify canal rules Taft holds defenses at panama are sanctioned by treaty with i great britain neutrality guaranteed 4 plans made by president when â– he was secretary of war to be carried out beverly sept b the panama canal will be fortified president Taft has him elf been committed to a scheme of forti fication for the canal ever hi nee his old days in the war i>epartment and there is Â» very definite understanding among those close to him that he has not changed his mind since he became president according to the understanding the president regards the treaty between the united states njd great britain ns sir ing this country all the right that is neces sary to fortify the canal the question ls merely one of interpretation and the president chooses to interpret the treaty as favorable to the fortification of the canal by the united states article 3of the treaty which bears date of february 22 19 provides among other things the canal shall never be blockaded nor ssabnll any right of war be exercised nor i any act of hostility be committed within it the united states however shall be . at liberty to maintain such military police along the caual as may be necessary to protect it against lawlessness and dis order neutrality of canal guaranteed this specific provision which gives the united states the right lo maintain such military police along the canal - ' etc is understood to be sufficient to warrant the president in deciding that the canal shad be forfeited in other words the presi dent believes that tliis clause authorizes the united states to guard and protect the canal by military means it is not intended that au y nation shail be barred from its use in time of war the absolute neutrality of the caual is j guaranteed unde r the treaty for all time bot the treaty constitutes the united i states as of right the main tainer of the canal as well as its neutrality and the administration will hold that it would be absurd in these circumstances to suppose that this nation was not endowed with the right to take such military measures as in the judgment of its offi als are necessary to amply and suffc ientiy guard the canal at all times what if an evil disposed or irresponsible nation in time of war â€” because all nations are to have freo use of the canal â€” should try to destroy it or put it out of use for a critical period to serve its own ends ordinary police power could not cope with such an anarchism among nations but such military police along the canal as may be necessary to protect it against lawlessness and disorder quoting the treaty once more tbat is to say adequate fortifications would enable the united states to forestall any such action Taft planned fortifications as the president's policy is understood therefore it is his idea that the treaty under this iuterpretation gives the united | states all the authority necessary to fort ify the canal and the canal will be forti fied in accordance with this interpretation this much is absolutely certain it is probably not generally known in this connection tbat the plans for the forti fication of the caual with slight modifi cations made necessary by unforeseen cir cumstances are those which were made by n commission acting under mr taft's supervision wheu he was secretary of war that far ahead he saw the necessity for fortificutious and it was under his initia tive that an army commission visited the isthmus and selected the places on both the atlantic and pacific sides where the big guns will ultimately be placed recently another commission visited the isthmus and ratified the plans formerly made on the forthcoming visit of the presi dent to panama the question of fortifying the caual will iu all probability be set tled definitely 62-pound fish is killed m oak alonge pulls kelley out of boi.t wife shoots it milwaukee wis sept s â€” the weirdest tale of fisherman's luck of the year from northern wisconsin came from khinelauder to-day when au immense muskalonge the biggest ever captured in the state was shipped by howard kelley to his friends the tish weighed sixty-two pounds and measured fifty-six inches kelley was out in a boat with his wife on lake laura when he hooked the tish he battled with it until the musky with a tremendous lunge pulled him out of the boat then mrs kelley shot the fish Chicago girl gives park hiss mary b mccormick equips to ronto's f 10,000 playground ottawa out sept s â€” regarding a fiut from the daughter of a Chicago mil bonnire a toronto wire says miss marv b mccormick sent a cheque for if 'â– Â« to president c a b brown of the to ronto playground association to equip a playground at cottingham square it is understood that a Chicago ma a w ili de tl the plans mrs l z leiter british officers held as german fort spies identity of men caught photograph ing island of borkum is established london sept 8.-the identy of two men caught by the german authorities taking photographs of the fortified island of borkum in the north sea has t:Â»en established they were arrested as spies and lodged in prison at emden much mystery has been made of the matter the two men are british naval officers tine being captain bernard trench of the royal marine light infantry and the other lieut vivian brandon of the regular ser vice brandon has done much work for the admiralty and lately has had a special assignment neither has made any state ment since the arrest but their captors know who they are they made a tour of all the islands along the frie sian coast which the ger mans are fortifying to protect their naval bases in the north sea marcus m towle dead man who made beef trnst possible expires in insane hospital hammond ind sept s.-marcus m towle the man who made the beef trust possible died in an lusaue hospital at lo gansport yesterday towle conceived the idea of shipping dressed beef in refriger ator cars and saving the difference in freight between the live weight of beef and the weight of dressed beef towle started his experiments in detroit mich where george h hammond became inter ested in his scheme and induced caleb ives to finance the g h hammond com pany later an improved car was used and the g h hammond company became the largest packing concern in the united slates towle's idea of shipping dressed beef in refrigerators was also adapted to steamship carriers the shipping of meat in refrigerators made possible the concen tration of the beef packing business in Chicago towle was the fouuder of ham mond and east Chicago and built the calu met terminal railroad he was worth 1,000,000 at one time but lost most of his fortune he is survived by three sons morton fred and george sibley trial postponed indicted i'oliticlnn is granted de lay on account of poor health franklin pa sept s.-the trial of joseph c sibley and four co-defendants indicted for consipring to debauch and corrupt voters will not take place until next december judge hinckley tbis after noon granting the motion of the defense for a postponement on account of sibley's poor health sibley and his private secre tary frank h taylor each gave 51,000 bail the other defendants w d how ard george b munn and c d crandall were released ou their own recognizance boldenweck quits post i en small sneceeds ns assistant l l . s tr murer sep it washington d c sept r.-the resignation of willir.m boi nweck as sistant united slates treasurer at Chicago was received at the treasury department todaj he will he succeeded by len small of Chicago on september lfi leiter guard grips beverly intruder jacid is hurled in watchman's face in battle with al leged motor pirate i taft's neighbor robbed j mysterious thefts near presi dent's summer home be lieved cleared by arrest i , beverly mass sept 8.-followlng lhe exciting capture of a man giving the name of george watson and claiming to be i a wealthy xew yorker early to-day tha i police believe that they have the mysterious ! motor pirate who has skimmed along the ! fashionable north shore and robbed many lof the summer residences this season i among them the home of a boston bank president directly across from president toft's cottage this last break was committed last night and the prisoner is suspected by the police of having knowledge of it as edward coughlin the night watchman on mrs levi z le iter's estate was making his rounds before dawn to-day he saw a man emerge from the darkness and stealthily mount the front steps of the lelter home hastily drawing his revolver coughlia called on the man to throw up his hands the man hesitated a moment and as the watchman drew near drew an ammonia syringe from his pocket and shot the con teats in coughlin s face the latter was temporarily blinded only his glasses saved him from permanent injury as the man ran down the road coughlin recov ered from the effects of the chemical spray and gave chase leiter chauffeur aids fight he quickly overtook him and grabbed him and after a desperate battle by wat son landed him in the police station coughlia was aided by mrs le iter's chauffeur who rushed to the scene ou hearing coughlin's cries watson's arrest is deemed by the police to be of the highest importance as the summer residence of thomas p beals the president of the second national bank of boston was burglarized last night at burgess point in spite of the fact that the house was full of guests and president taft's residence is directly opposite fifth break this week last night's break makes the fifth this week and the third important one tues day night the residence of alexander stetn ert at hospital point was broken into and about 200 worth of jewelry taken on last monday evening several hundred dollars worth of jewelry was taken from the house of e v r thayer at man chester-by-the-sea wife won't see earle reconciliation impossible declares artist's former father-in-law special cable to the i aminer paris sept b mais il est fou !" he's crazy exclaimed old mr fischbacher to-day when told of the report in new york tbat ferdinand pidney earle had sailed to beseech his first wife emily fischbacher to marry him ngaii it's all over absolutely finished be tween my daughter and earle said fisc bacber with a gesture intended to sweep earle from the earth she and all of us are firmly resolved in that you can say for me that she will not receive earle if he comes here seize u s pair in naples authorities accuse doctor and wife of defrauding chemist special cable to the e xa miner naples sept b dr de angelis of hohoken n 7 who says he is represent ing messrs h k m ulford druggists of new y'ork philadelphia and Chicago and ids wife have been arrested oil a charge of defrauding chemists a sensation has been caused by the arrest as the doctor seemed to have large sums of money and recently opened a fine villa at posilipo with a ban quet whir-h was attended by leading of ficials of the province and c.y and their wives archduke in air crash leopold snlvntor ed â€” pes i 11 injured when planes â€” m together vienna sept b the archduke leo pold salvator had a narrow escape in an aeroplane flight to-day he made an ascent with herr august warchalowsky from the aviation ground in wiener neustadt near vienna w hile flying at a height of twenty meters the aeroplane came into a collision with another which was piloted by herri carl v/arohal owsky a brother of herr j august warchlo wsky herr carl war chalowsky fell with his machine to the ground both his legs were broken the archduke leopold salvator and herr august warchalowsky made a safe decent 3 in auto cremated by fiery lava flood ladle of molten slag on flat car upset in 104th street crossing crash bodies and car in ashes victims are mr and mrs peter c lesterhouse and mrs fred kent in a wave of molten steel mill slag pouring on them like liquid are peter c lesterhouse a cement and masonry eon tractor nnd his wife of 31 west one hundred and twelfth place roselnnd and mrs fred kent said to have lived in englewood were burned to death early last night when the lesterhouse automo bile was struck by a string of flat cars loaded with slag ladles at one hundred and fourth street and the rock island tracks miss anna baker seventeen years old ot 590 west one hundred and fourteenth street the fourth occupant of the automo bile was painfully burned on one too and almost crazed by the frightful tragedy miss baker's father is nicholas baker foreman of the Illinois central shops at burnside . girl tells tragic story cut burned and almost in a state of col lapse miss baker told the story of the grim tragedy as it came back to her in vague flashes at her home a party of about thirty of her young friends were gathered with the intention of giving her a surprise party they had not heard of the accident and were overwhelmed by the shock when she arrived the young woman attempted to greet her guests but was overcome her clothes were torn and scorched she was propped up in a chair and tried to answer ques tions t-7 we started for south bend this morn ing she said but when we got within fifteen miles of thnt town we turned back on account of the muddy roads wnen we neared the railroad we could see the en gine but not the cars the train was backing and there were no lights any where as we got closer to the tracks i stood up in the car to see if the train was going to come on over the crossing crash on dark crossing _ mr lesterhouse and his wife we:e sitting together in the front seat i was rifling in the tonneau with mrs kent after we had stopped for a moment mr lesterhouse decided that the train was not going to back any further so he start ed up the machine again we had gone only a few feet and as we approached we could not even see the glow from the engine there was not i even a sound as the train slipped over the rails toward us through the darkness we reached the crossing there was a terrific crash the tear flatear struck us fairly in the middle of the tonneau what followed was of momentary dura tion but it will never leave my memory i heard the shrieks of my companions ns the molten metal from the rear ladle spilled over into the automobile i think some of the metal must have poured into the gasoline tank at any rate almost with the shock of the collision came the explosion of the gasoline in our car just before the crash i realized the danger and jumped from the tonneau i have a recollection of a great yelow flash and then oblivion came when i picked myself up a few moments later i found that i hnd been thrown to a distance of oue hundred or more feet and was lying on a slag heap my clothes were smolder ing i staggered about to look for my companions mr lesterhouse and his wife were lying dead on the slag heap the lower parts of tbeir bodies frightfully burned the body of mrs kent us near i walked about dazedly until 1 was picked up and taken home mow than this i cannot remember the de tails of the tragedy are seared iu my brain only iu vague snatches car a shapeless mass the shapeless mass tbat had beeu the automobile was found nearly 130 feet from the point where the flat car struck it the slag which was being carried on the flat cars came from the wisconsin steel mills at oue hundred and sixth street there is a slag dump belonging to the mills near one hundred and fourth street the company has especially constructed flat cars each equipped with six of the huge ladle's the cars are run up to the mills and the slag in molten state is poured into them through chutes and con veyed quickly to the dump by switch en gines so that the ladies can be emptied be fore the masses in them cool and harden miss baker told the police that there was no watchman at the crossing or c schroeder one of the physicians said however that a member of the train crow told him there was a watchman on duty and that this man gave lesterhouse warn ing mr lesterhouse had owned his automo bile only six weeks he and his wife had been married three years they had no children mrs lesterhouse was 27 years old and mrs kent 30 bowers is gaining fast boston sept 8 a steady improvement ln the condition of lloyd w bowers l'nited states solicitor general of Chicago was reported by his physician to-day mr bowers vtho has been seriously ill at u boston hotel for several days passed an excellent night nnd was decidedly better to-day it will be several days hotv.ever before he will be able to leave his bed mr roosevelt accepts mr hearst's suggestion to fight new york bosses mr hearst in an open letter cabled to the examiner from paris wednesday said : m r - roosevelt lately declared that he â€¢*â– "â€¢*â€¢ was determined to drive the corrupt bosses out of his party in new york state if mr roosevelt is in earnest in that pro posal let him come back to new y ork and seri ously settle dow.i to that important piece of business mr roosevelt last night at the hamilton club when asked concerning mr hearst's open letter made this reply iil am going back to new york state as men * tioned by mr hearst to fight the bosses i will welcome the support of any man who wishes to aid in that fight chanler says he'll return to cavalieri sheriff bob in quebec asked of reported separation says nothing to it Â„ new york sept 8.-"shciiff bob otherwise robert winthrop chanler who had reached canada on his way back to the united states without his bride lina cavalieri the opera singer did not get to towa to-day as was expected he stayed in quebec and disappointed the curiosity of his friends who have â€¢ been wondering whether or not his absence from the most beautiful woman iu the world means that they have already reached the parting of the matrimonial ways the big artist-millionaire when seen tn quebec by an examiner representative said that's too ridiculous for anything nothing to it â€” nothing at all i've come here on business my wife stayed in en rope i'll join her again in a few weeks everything o k mr chanler who is accompanied from europe by his sister-in-law mrs william astor chanler said he did uot think he would start for xew york for three or four days at the atelier studios where apartments have been fitted up for sheriff bob by mrs ashley mother of his sister-in-law it was said to-night that the fittings seemed to indicate that the apartments were ito have a feminine occupant mrs ashley had spoken at the atelier as though the new mrs chanler were to live there as well as her husband from paris mme cava lieri-chanler cabled this message to-day : i have been 111 with appendicitis and cannot stand the trip to america with my husband that's the only reason i did not cross with him hirsh bride goes west jeannette pell etier in wyoming declares st paul neighbor st paul minn sept s mrs f e vermont to-day said that jeannette pelle tier who claims to be the widow of sol j hirsh the millionaire suicide lived with her sister mrs lon orville helgeson here from friday of last week until wednes day of this when the sisters left for lan ders wyo mr helgeson denied that his wife had left the city but the story of mrs vermont who lives on the same floor is substantiated bv others in the building who could not before be induced to talk it is believed that miss pelletier took the 25,000 offered her and has agreed to seclude herself until the hirsh affair is forgotten tries to shoot judge m niiinc knocked doavn sa.v.aj Taft â€ž 'â€” â– r be next victim . new i'ork sept b lewis saron twenty-two years old an escaped inmate of the central islip insane asylum on long island was arrested to-day after making an attempt to kill magistrate o'connor later he declared that it was his purpose to slay president Taft as well as the magis trate the tie pt to kill the magistrate was frustrated by city marshal henry lazarus the maniac had leveled a â€” s caliber revolver at the head of o'connor on the porch of the â€” aglstrate's home on east one hundred and sixteenth street when lazarus who . ad trailed saron from the harlem co ft , knocked him down come to wed actresses london clubmen to marry blllle burke and pauline clinne special table to lie examiner london sept b captain frank cary and nicholas jarvis wood two young lon doners popular in the clubs and at the theaters will sail for new york next month with the purpose of marrying two charming actresses captain cary says he will marry miss blllle burke early in january and about the same time nikko wood as everybody calls him will take to himself miss pauline chase of the pink pajamas both young men come from good families but neither is wealthy mrs john s tanner is granted decree mother of human orchid heir to milbank millions gets custody of child los angeles cal sept 8.-mrs john s tanner obtained a divorce to-day in judge hutton's court and permission to assume her maiden name of eleanor milbank an derson this announcement will stir the bluest blooded section of the old holland families in xew york mrs tanner is the mother of betty tanner the human orchard who is be ing reared here by chemical formula and prescription so that she will live to inherit the milbank fortune of 25,000,000 now in the possession of her grandmother mrs abraham archibald anderson she was elizabeth milbank and only heir to jere miah milbank founder of borden's con densed milk company though society both here and in new york realized that affairs in the tanner household were drifting divorceward there was little gossip mrs tanner testified that her mother had to supply all the money for the family isaac milbank her second cousin of new york also testified to this effect mr tanner was not present at the hearing whether he is now in eu rope or in the orient is not known in addition to recovering her maiden name the mother also is awarded complete custody of the child betty there was no request for alimony nor for any share in tanner's estate love victim slays self american in vienna hangs cnts and shoots himself special cable to the examiner vienna sept s richard rools a handsome young fellow who came here re cently from his home in newark n j was noticed pacing the vestibule of his hotel for several hours this morning he was waiting for a messenger to bring him a letter no one came and about noon rools was heard to exclaim it's all over lost and he hurried upstairs to his room a few moments later the hotel resounded with the report of revolver shots the door of rools room was forced he was found dead suspended hy a rope with which he had tried to haug himself the arteries of his left wrist had been opened and he had shot himself in the temple on a table was the following note american girls are good and true of heart but the viennese are false and un true i must die because one of them has broken my beart i don't care for life any more my only regret is that my dear parents who are waiting for me in amer ica god's own land will suffer lid on killing contest minim'sota governor refuses to per mit butchers race st paul minn sept b governor eâ€”â€”_.rt to-day write to sheriff b mc devitt of dakota county ordering him to see that the butchering tontest sched uled to take place in dakota county lust outside the line from st paul sunday after noon is stopped the governor wis in formed wednesday that two men had made a wager as to which cou kill and dress the greatest number of a't lais in a given time and that they were going to settle it sunday 250,000 fire at lebeau buminess district of south dakota community is wiped out st i'al'l minn sept b a fire the origin of whicli is not known here wiped out the business district of lebeau s d terminus of the minneapolis and st louis road ou the missouri elver to-day the loss on buildings and fixtures ls estimated at jfioo.ooo the loss ou merchandise and stocks of various kinds will perhaps ap proximate 100,000 more bennington ordered sold xew voitk sept b the navy de partment to-day ordered sold the gunboat bennington iu which seventy uicu were killed in iuoo lorimer forced from banquet of g.o.p by roosevelt colonel in rage declines to 8 at table with the senator friends of latter annoyed at what is called affront hamilton club ordered to re call invitation despite pro tests of statesman's friends who term action hasty lack of tact in causing an eleventh hour disturbance is assailed by officers political trick is seen i shall not attend that banquet if sen ator lorimer is to be there why gen tlemen it would be just like sitting at the same table with browne and all those others colonel roosevelt to hamilton club committee william lorimer 217 la salle street colonel roosevelt positively declines to sit at the same table with you at the banquet to-night our invitation to yoti is therefore hereby withdrawn john h batten president hamilton club it is a matter i must decline to dis cuss in any manner i have nothing to say regarding the action taken by va hamilton club reception committee senator lorimer i deeply regret that such a situation arose mr lorimer is a member of the hamilton club in good standing a well as a united states senator i could see no reason why he should be dis criminated against and neither can i now i believe as the law says that i man is innocent until proven guilty colonel roosevelt thought otherwise so there remained nothing which we could do but to bow to his decision john h e tten colonel theodore roosevelt by a sud den and entirely unexpected announcement that he trot-id not attend the hamlltou club banquet if united states senator william lorimer wns present placed j members of that republican organization j in the awkward predicament of being j forced to withdraw an invitation issued to a member of be club whose guest the former president was at a reception tendered him last night the announcement which was made to the reception committee of the club which met colonel roosevelt in freeport 111 ana brought him to the city caused a sen sation ln political circles and may result ln a factional flght in the hamilton club while club members are reticent in dis cussing the action of the committee in withdrawing the invitation to senator lorimer lt is said that a large number feel that colonel roosevelt's demand that one of the club's members be instructed not to appear at the banquet should have been refused others said last night tint the matter was a closed incident makes demand on batten the colonel's demand for the exclusion of senator lorimer was made to john h batten president of the club georgi w dixou and edwin a munger and it was nut until he bad been shown a tele gram which was sent to the junior sen ator withdrawing the invitation would mr itooseveit content to conic to Chicago on the arrival of the hamilton club committee colonel itooseveit immediate asked to know who was to be present it the banquet is speaker cannon to be there he asked ves replied mr batten ob that is inexcusable inexcusable petulantly de lured the colonel v how about senator lorimer was his next question he has accepted an invitation to the dinner answered the club president that is impossible impossible the colonel cried vehemently why do you do such tilings i decline to go lf he is there i will not paieot him and be turned the cold shoulder ou the chiengoiins we miinnt recall the invitation pro tested president batten very well gentlemen you may do ns you please about that nut 1 shall not at tend that banquet if senator lorimer is to be there it would be just like sitting down at the same table with browne end all those others colonel surprised and angry * colonel roosevelt bad become angry b this time and paced rapidly back and forth before the clubmen i am surprised that ibe hamilton club invited ine at all be shouted as hu marched past clarence i kuight turning again to the group of Chicago ana he said to mr battcu you bad i round trip tickets to michigan city on steam :__ united states good next sunday sept 11 for twenty-five cents cut out the coupon in next saturday's ex amiseb cut out the white city coupon on page two of to-day*s examiner q the rt < oupens are worth mon â– ; to y.u

Chicago examiner - r ' wi'ii / â– ill m the weather . mj ju Chicago and vicinity fair andjf&u i -^ cooler friday saturday fair and t â– 1 wi cool moderate and probably brisk ; i vv northwesterly winds din-inishing v vol viii no 225 a m Chicago september 9 1910 14 pages friday friday registered in c s patent office m success p?p in > n jkjks largely upon your ability to save and f\\j m f ' dy not waste anything a barter and ex c 4 \ *Â»? change ad will exchange anything you v j v j cannot use for something you want ! jf m read thi slant jui * price one cent gf 30 cents per mouth u.s has right to fortify canal rules Taft holds defenses at panama are sanctioned by treaty with i great britain neutrality guaranteed 4 plans made by president when â– he was secretary of war to be carried out beverly sept b the panama canal will be fortified president Taft has him elf been committed to a scheme of forti fication for the canal ever hi nee his old days in the war i>epartment and there is Â» very definite understanding among those close to him that he has not changed his mind since he became president according to the understanding the president regards the treaty between the united states njd great britain ns sir ing this country all the right that is neces sary to fortify the canal the question ls merely one of interpretation and the president chooses to interpret the treaty as favorable to the fortification of the canal by the united states article 3of the treaty which bears date of february 22 19 provides among other things the canal shall never be blockaded nor ssabnll any right of war be exercised nor i any act of hostility be committed within it the united states however shall be . at liberty to maintain such military police along the caual as may be necessary to protect it against lawlessness and dis order neutrality of canal guaranteed this specific provision which gives the united states the right lo maintain such military police along the canal - ' etc is understood to be sufficient to warrant the president in deciding that the canal shad be forfeited in other words the presi dent believes that tliis clause authorizes the united states to guard and protect the canal by military means it is not intended that au y nation shail be barred from its use in time of war the absolute neutrality of the caual is j guaranteed unde r the treaty for all time bot the treaty constitutes the united i states as of right the main tainer of the canal as well as its neutrality and the administration will hold that it would be absurd in these circumstances to suppose that this nation was not endowed with the right to take such military measures as in the judgment of its offi als are necessary to amply and suffc ientiy guard the canal at all times what if an evil disposed or irresponsible nation in time of war â€” because all nations are to have freo use of the canal â€” should try to destroy it or put it out of use for a critical period to serve its own ends ordinary police power could not cope with such an anarchism among nations but such military police along the canal as may be necessary to protect it against lawlessness and disorder quoting the treaty once more tbat is to say adequate fortifications would enable the united states to forestall any such action Taft planned fortifications as the president's policy is understood therefore it is his idea that the treaty under this iuterpretation gives the united | states all the authority necessary to fort ify the canal and the canal will be forti fied in accordance with this interpretation this much is absolutely certain it is probably not generally known in this connection tbat the plans for the forti fication of the caual with slight modifi cations made necessary by unforeseen cir cumstances are those which were made by n commission acting under mr taft's supervision wheu he was secretary of war that far ahead he saw the necessity for fortificutious and it was under his initia tive that an army commission visited the isthmus and selected the places on both the atlantic and pacific sides where the big guns will ultimately be placed recently another commission visited the isthmus and ratified the plans formerly made on the forthcoming visit of the presi dent to panama the question of fortifying the caual will iu all probability be set tled definitely 62-pound fish is killed m oak alonge pulls kelley out of boi.t wife shoots it milwaukee wis sept s â€” the weirdest tale of fisherman's luck of the year from northern wisconsin came from khinelauder to-day when au immense muskalonge the biggest ever captured in the state was shipped by howard kelley to his friends the tish weighed sixty-two pounds and measured fifty-six inches kelley was out in a boat with his wife on lake laura when he hooked the tish he battled with it until the musky with a tremendous lunge pulled him out of the boat then mrs kelley shot the fish Chicago girl gives park hiss mary b mccormick equips to ronto's f 10,000 playground ottawa out sept s â€” regarding a fiut from the daughter of a Chicago mil bonnire a toronto wire says miss marv b mccormick sent a cheque for if 'â– Â« to president c a b brown of the to ronto playground association to equip a playground at cottingham square it is understood that a Chicago ma a w ili de tl the plans mrs l z leiter british officers held as german fort spies identity of men caught photograph ing island of borkum is established london sept 8.-the identy of two men caught by the german authorities taking photographs of the fortified island of borkum in the north sea has t:Â»en established they were arrested as spies and lodged in prison at emden much mystery has been made of the matter the two men are british naval officers tine being captain bernard trench of the royal marine light infantry and the other lieut vivian brandon of the regular ser vice brandon has done much work for the admiralty and lately has had a special assignment neither has made any state ment since the arrest but their captors know who they are they made a tour of all the islands along the frie sian coast which the ger mans are fortifying to protect their naval bases in the north sea marcus m towle dead man who made beef trnst possible expires in insane hospital hammond ind sept s.-marcus m towle the man who made the beef trust possible died in an lusaue hospital at lo gansport yesterday towle conceived the idea of shipping dressed beef in refriger ator cars and saving the difference in freight between the live weight of beef and the weight of dressed beef towle started his experiments in detroit mich where george h hammond became inter ested in his scheme and induced caleb ives to finance the g h hammond com pany later an improved car was used and the g h hammond company became the largest packing concern in the united slates towle's idea of shipping dressed beef in refrigerators was also adapted to steamship carriers the shipping of meat in refrigerators made possible the concen tration of the beef packing business in Chicago towle was the fouuder of ham mond and east Chicago and built the calu met terminal railroad he was worth 1,000,000 at one time but lost most of his fortune he is survived by three sons morton fred and george sibley trial postponed indicted i'oliticlnn is granted de lay on account of poor health franklin pa sept s.-the trial of joseph c sibley and four co-defendants indicted for consipring to debauch and corrupt voters will not take place until next december judge hinckley tbis after noon granting the motion of the defense for a postponement on account of sibley's poor health sibley and his private secre tary frank h taylor each gave 51,000 bail the other defendants w d how ard george b munn and c d crandall were released ou their own recognizance boldenweck quits post i en small sneceeds ns assistant l l . s tr murer sep it washington d c sept r.-the resignation of willir.m boi nweck as sistant united slates treasurer at Chicago was received at the treasury department todaj he will he succeeded by len small of Chicago on september lfi leiter guard grips beverly intruder jacid is hurled in watchman's face in battle with al leged motor pirate i taft's neighbor robbed j mysterious thefts near presi dent's summer home be lieved cleared by arrest i , beverly mass sept 8.-followlng lhe exciting capture of a man giving the name of george watson and claiming to be i a wealthy xew yorker early to-day tha i police believe that they have the mysterious ! motor pirate who has skimmed along the ! fashionable north shore and robbed many lof the summer residences this season i among them the home of a boston bank president directly across from president toft's cottage this last break was committed last night and the prisoner is suspected by the police of having knowledge of it as edward coughlin the night watchman on mrs levi z le iter's estate was making his rounds before dawn to-day he saw a man emerge from the darkness and stealthily mount the front steps of the lelter home hastily drawing his revolver coughlia called on the man to throw up his hands the man hesitated a moment and as the watchman drew near drew an ammonia syringe from his pocket and shot the con teats in coughlin s face the latter was temporarily blinded only his glasses saved him from permanent injury as the man ran down the road coughlin recov ered from the effects of the chemical spray and gave chase leiter chauffeur aids fight he quickly overtook him and grabbed him and after a desperate battle by wat son landed him in the police station coughlia was aided by mrs le iter's chauffeur who rushed to the scene ou hearing coughlin's cries watson's arrest is deemed by the police to be of the highest importance as the summer residence of thomas p beals the president of the second national bank of boston was burglarized last night at burgess point in spite of the fact that the house was full of guests and president taft's residence is directly opposite fifth break this week last night's break makes the fifth this week and the third important one tues day night the residence of alexander stetn ert at hospital point was broken into and about 200 worth of jewelry taken on last monday evening several hundred dollars worth of jewelry was taken from the house of e v r thayer at man chester-by-the-sea wife won't see earle reconciliation impossible declares artist's former father-in-law special cable to the i aminer paris sept b mais il est fou !" he's crazy exclaimed old mr fischbacher to-day when told of the report in new york tbat ferdinand pidney earle had sailed to beseech his first wife emily fischbacher to marry him ngaii it's all over absolutely finished be tween my daughter and earle said fisc bacber with a gesture intended to sweep earle from the earth she and all of us are firmly resolved in that you can say for me that she will not receive earle if he comes here seize u s pair in naples authorities accuse doctor and wife of defrauding chemist special cable to the e xa miner naples sept b dr de angelis of hohoken n 7 who says he is represent ing messrs h k m ulford druggists of new y'ork philadelphia and Chicago and ids wife have been arrested oil a charge of defrauding chemists a sensation has been caused by the arrest as the doctor seemed to have large sums of money and recently opened a fine villa at posilipo with a ban quet whir-h was attended by leading of ficials of the province and c.y and their wives archduke in air crash leopold snlvntor ed â€” pes i 11 injured when planes â€” m together vienna sept b the archduke leo pold salvator had a narrow escape in an aeroplane flight to-day he made an ascent with herr august warchalowsky from the aviation ground in wiener neustadt near vienna w hile flying at a height of twenty meters the aeroplane came into a collision with another which was piloted by herri carl v/arohal owsky a brother of herr j august warchlo wsky herr carl war chalowsky fell with his machine to the ground both his legs were broken the archduke leopold salvator and herr august warchalowsky made a safe decent 3 in auto cremated by fiery lava flood ladle of molten slag on flat car upset in 104th street crossing crash bodies and car in ashes victims are mr and mrs peter c lesterhouse and mrs fred kent in a wave of molten steel mill slag pouring on them like liquid are peter c lesterhouse a cement and masonry eon tractor nnd his wife of 31 west one hundred and twelfth place roselnnd and mrs fred kent said to have lived in englewood were burned to death early last night when the lesterhouse automo bile was struck by a string of flat cars loaded with slag ladles at one hundred and fourth street and the rock island tracks miss anna baker seventeen years old ot 590 west one hundred and fourteenth street the fourth occupant of the automo bile was painfully burned on one too and almost crazed by the frightful tragedy miss baker's father is nicholas baker foreman of the Illinois central shops at burnside . girl tells tragic story cut burned and almost in a state of col lapse miss baker told the story of the grim tragedy as it came back to her in vague flashes at her home a party of about thirty of her young friends were gathered with the intention of giving her a surprise party they had not heard of the accident and were overwhelmed by the shock when she arrived the young woman attempted to greet her guests but was overcome her clothes were torn and scorched she was propped up in a chair and tried to answer ques tions t-7 we started for south bend this morn ing she said but when we got within fifteen miles of thnt town we turned back on account of the muddy roads wnen we neared the railroad we could see the en gine but not the cars the train was backing and there were no lights any where as we got closer to the tracks i stood up in the car to see if the train was going to come on over the crossing crash on dark crossing _ mr lesterhouse and his wife we:e sitting together in the front seat i was rifling in the tonneau with mrs kent after we had stopped for a moment mr lesterhouse decided that the train was not going to back any further so he start ed up the machine again we had gone only a few feet and as we approached we could not even see the glow from the engine there was not i even a sound as the train slipped over the rails toward us through the darkness we reached the crossing there was a terrific crash the tear flatear struck us fairly in the middle of the tonneau what followed was of momentary dura tion but it will never leave my memory i heard the shrieks of my companions ns the molten metal from the rear ladle spilled over into the automobile i think some of the metal must have poured into the gasoline tank at any rate almost with the shock of the collision came the explosion of the gasoline in our car just before the crash i realized the danger and jumped from the tonneau i have a recollection of a great yelow flash and then oblivion came when i picked myself up a few moments later i found that i hnd been thrown to a distance of oue hundred or more feet and was lying on a slag heap my clothes were smolder ing i staggered about to look for my companions mr lesterhouse and his wife were lying dead on the slag heap the lower parts of tbeir bodies frightfully burned the body of mrs kent us near i walked about dazedly until 1 was picked up and taken home mow than this i cannot remember the de tails of the tragedy are seared iu my brain only iu vague snatches car a shapeless mass the shapeless mass tbat had beeu the automobile was found nearly 130 feet from the point where the flat car struck it the slag which was being carried on the flat cars came from the wisconsin steel mills at oue hundred and sixth street there is a slag dump belonging to the mills near one hundred and fourth street the company has especially constructed flat cars each equipped with six of the huge ladle's the cars are run up to the mills and the slag in molten state is poured into them through chutes and con veyed quickly to the dump by switch en gines so that the ladies can be emptied be fore the masses in them cool and harden miss baker told the police that there was no watchman at the crossing or c schroeder one of the physicians said however that a member of the train crow told him there was a watchman on duty and that this man gave lesterhouse warn ing mr lesterhouse had owned his automo bile only six weeks he and his wife had been married three years they had no children mrs lesterhouse was 27 years old and mrs kent 30 bowers is gaining fast boston sept 8 a steady improvement ln the condition of lloyd w bowers l'nited states solicitor general of Chicago was reported by his physician to-day mr bowers vtho has been seriously ill at u boston hotel for several days passed an excellent night nnd was decidedly better to-day it will be several days hotv.ever before he will be able to leave his bed mr roosevelt accepts mr hearst's suggestion to fight new york bosses mr hearst in an open letter cabled to the examiner from paris wednesday said : m r - roosevelt lately declared that he â€¢*â– "â€¢*â€¢ was determined to drive the corrupt bosses out of his party in new york state if mr roosevelt is in earnest in that pro posal let him come back to new y ork and seri ously settle dow.i to that important piece of business mr roosevelt last night at the hamilton club when asked concerning mr hearst's open letter made this reply iil am going back to new york state as men * tioned by mr hearst to fight the bosses i will welcome the support of any man who wishes to aid in that fight chanler says he'll return to cavalieri sheriff bob in quebec asked of reported separation says nothing to it Â„ new york sept 8.-"shciiff bob otherwise robert winthrop chanler who had reached canada on his way back to the united states without his bride lina cavalieri the opera singer did not get to towa to-day as was expected he stayed in quebec and disappointed the curiosity of his friends who have â€¢ been wondering whether or not his absence from the most beautiful woman iu the world means that they have already reached the parting of the matrimonial ways the big artist-millionaire when seen tn quebec by an examiner representative said that's too ridiculous for anything nothing to it â€” nothing at all i've come here on business my wife stayed in en rope i'll join her again in a few weeks everything o k mr chanler who is accompanied from europe by his sister-in-law mrs william astor chanler said he did uot think he would start for xew york for three or four days at the atelier studios where apartments have been fitted up for sheriff bob by mrs ashley mother of his sister-in-law it was said to-night that the fittings seemed to indicate that the apartments were ito have a feminine occupant mrs ashley had spoken at the atelier as though the new mrs chanler were to live there as well as her husband from paris mme cava lieri-chanler cabled this message to-day : i have been 111 with appendicitis and cannot stand the trip to america with my husband that's the only reason i did not cross with him hirsh bride goes west jeannette pell etier in wyoming declares st paul neighbor st paul minn sept s mrs f e vermont to-day said that jeannette pelle tier who claims to be the widow of sol j hirsh the millionaire suicide lived with her sister mrs lon orville helgeson here from friday of last week until wednes day of this when the sisters left for lan ders wyo mr helgeson denied that his wife had left the city but the story of mrs vermont who lives on the same floor is substantiated bv others in the building who could not before be induced to talk it is believed that miss pelletier took the 25,000 offered her and has agreed to seclude herself until the hirsh affair is forgotten tries to shoot judge m niiinc knocked doavn sa.v.aj Taft â€ž 'â€” â– r be next victim . new i'ork sept b lewis saron twenty-two years old an escaped inmate of the central islip insane asylum on long island was arrested to-day after making an attempt to kill magistrate o'connor later he declared that it was his purpose to slay president Taft as well as the magis trate the tie pt to kill the magistrate was frustrated by city marshal henry lazarus the maniac had leveled a â€” s caliber revolver at the head of o'connor on the porch of the â€” aglstrate's home on east one hundred and sixteenth street when lazarus who . ad trailed saron from the harlem co ft , knocked him down come to wed actresses london clubmen to marry blllle burke and pauline clinne special table to lie examiner london sept b captain frank cary and nicholas jarvis wood two young lon doners popular in the clubs and at the theaters will sail for new york next month with the purpose of marrying two charming actresses captain cary says he will marry miss blllle burke early in january and about the same time nikko wood as everybody calls him will take to himself miss pauline chase of the pink pajamas both young men come from good families but neither is wealthy mrs john s tanner is granted decree mother of human orchid heir to milbank millions gets custody of child los angeles cal sept 8.-mrs john s tanner obtained a divorce to-day in judge hutton's court and permission to assume her maiden name of eleanor milbank an derson this announcement will stir the bluest blooded section of the old holland families in xew york mrs tanner is the mother of betty tanner the human orchard who is be ing reared here by chemical formula and prescription so that she will live to inherit the milbank fortune of 25,000,000 now in the possession of her grandmother mrs abraham archibald anderson she was elizabeth milbank and only heir to jere miah milbank founder of borden's con densed milk company though society both here and in new york realized that affairs in the tanner household were drifting divorceward there was little gossip mrs tanner testified that her mother had to supply all the money for the family isaac milbank her second cousin of new york also testified to this effect mr tanner was not present at the hearing whether he is now in eu rope or in the orient is not known in addition to recovering her maiden name the mother also is awarded complete custody of the child betty there was no request for alimony nor for any share in tanner's estate love victim slays self american in vienna hangs cnts and shoots himself special cable to the examiner vienna sept s richard rools a handsome young fellow who came here re cently from his home in newark n j was noticed pacing the vestibule of his hotel for several hours this morning he was waiting for a messenger to bring him a letter no one came and about noon rools was heard to exclaim it's all over lost and he hurried upstairs to his room a few moments later the hotel resounded with the report of revolver shots the door of rools room was forced he was found dead suspended hy a rope with which he had tried to haug himself the arteries of his left wrist had been opened and he had shot himself in the temple on a table was the following note american girls are good and true of heart but the viennese are false and un true i must die because one of them has broken my beart i don't care for life any more my only regret is that my dear parents who are waiting for me in amer ica god's own land will suffer lid on killing contest minim'sota governor refuses to per mit butchers race st paul minn sept b governor eâ€”â€”_.rt to-day write to sheriff b mc devitt of dakota county ordering him to see that the butchering tontest sched uled to take place in dakota county lust outside the line from st paul sunday after noon is stopped the governor wis in formed wednesday that two men had made a wager as to which cou kill and dress the greatest number of a't lais in a given time and that they were going to settle it sunday 250,000 fire at lebeau buminess district of south dakota community is wiped out st i'al'l minn sept b a fire the origin of whicli is not known here wiped out the business district of lebeau s d terminus of the minneapolis and st louis road ou the missouri elver to-day the loss on buildings and fixtures ls estimated at jfioo.ooo the loss ou merchandise and stocks of various kinds will perhaps ap proximate 100,000 more bennington ordered sold xew voitk sept b the navy de partment to-day ordered sold the gunboat bennington iu which seventy uicu were killed in iuoo lorimer forced from banquet of g.o.p by roosevelt colonel in rage declines to 8 at table with the senator friends of latter annoyed at what is called affront hamilton club ordered to re call invitation despite pro tests of statesman's friends who term action hasty lack of tact in causing an eleventh hour disturbance is assailed by officers political trick is seen i shall not attend that banquet if sen ator lorimer is to be there why gen tlemen it would be just like sitting at the same table with browne and all those others colonel roosevelt to hamilton club committee william lorimer 217 la salle street colonel roosevelt positively declines to sit at the same table with you at the banquet to-night our invitation to yoti is therefore hereby withdrawn john h batten president hamilton club it is a matter i must decline to dis cuss in any manner i have nothing to say regarding the action taken by va hamilton club reception committee senator lorimer i deeply regret that such a situation arose mr lorimer is a member of the hamilton club in good standing a well as a united states senator i could see no reason why he should be dis criminated against and neither can i now i believe as the law says that i man is innocent until proven guilty colonel roosevelt thought otherwise so there remained nothing which we could do but to bow to his decision john h e tten colonel theodore roosevelt by a sud den and entirely unexpected announcement that he trot-id not attend the hamlltou club banquet if united states senator william lorimer wns present placed j members of that republican organization j in the awkward predicament of being j forced to withdraw an invitation issued to a member of be club whose guest the former president was at a reception tendered him last night the announcement which was made to the reception committee of the club which met colonel roosevelt in freeport 111 ana brought him to the city caused a sen sation ln political circles and may result ln a factional flght in the hamilton club while club members are reticent in dis cussing the action of the committee in withdrawing the invitation to senator lorimer lt is said that a large number feel that colonel roosevelt's demand that one of the club's members be instructed not to appear at the banquet should have been refused others said last night tint the matter was a closed incident makes demand on batten the colonel's demand for the exclusion of senator lorimer was made to john h batten president of the club georgi w dixou and edwin a munger and it was nut until he bad been shown a tele gram which was sent to the junior sen ator withdrawing the invitation would mr itooseveit content to conic to Chicago on the arrival of the hamilton club committee colonel itooseveit immediate asked to know who was to be present it the banquet is speaker cannon to be there he asked ves replied mr batten ob that is inexcusable inexcusable petulantly de lured the colonel v how about senator lorimer was his next question he has accepted an invitation to the dinner answered the club president that is impossible impossible the colonel cried vehemently why do you do such tilings i decline to go lf he is there i will not paieot him and be turned the cold shoulder ou the chiengoiins we miinnt recall the invitation pro tested president batten very well gentlemen you may do ns you please about that nut 1 shall not at tend that banquet if senator lorimer is to be there it would be just like sitting down at the same table with browne end all those others colonel surprised and angry * colonel roosevelt bad become angry b this time and paced rapidly back and forth before the clubmen i am surprised that ibe hamilton club invited ine at all be shouted as hu marched past clarence i kuight turning again to the group of Chicago ana he said to mr battcu you bad i round trip tickets to michigan city on steam :__ united states good next sunday sept 11 for twenty-five cents cut out the coupon in next saturday's ex amiseb cut out the white city coupon on page two of to-day*s examiner q the rt < oupens are worth mon â– ; to y.u